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Samson Defeats the Philistines

1 After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in. 2 And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.” 3 And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.” 4 So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. 5 And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. 6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.” 8 And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. 9 Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.” 11 Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.” 12 And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.” 13 They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock. 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. 15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. 16 And Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men.” 17 As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.* 18 And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the Lord and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” 19 And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore;* it is at Lehi to this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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انتقام سامسون از فلسطينیها

1 پس از مدتی، در موقع درو گندم، سامسون بزغالهای به عنوان هديه برداشت تا پيش زن خود برود. اما پدر زنش وی را به خانه راه نداد، 2 و گفت: «من گمان میكردم تو از او نفرت داری، از اين رو وی را به عقد ساقدوش تو درآوردم. اما خواهر كوچكش از او خيلی زيباتر است؛ میتوانی با او ازدواج كنی.» 3 سامسون فرياد زد: «اكنون ديگر هر بلايی بر سر فلسطينیها بياورم تقصيرش به گردن من نيست.» 4 پس بيرون رفته، سيصد شغال گرفت و دمهای آنها را جفتجفت به هم بست و در ميان هرجفت مشعلی قرار داد. 5 بعد مشعلها را آتش زد و شغالها را در ميان كشتزارهای فلسطينيان رها نمود. با اين عمل تمام محصول و درختان زيتون سوخته و نابود شد. 6 فلسطينیها از يكديگر میپرسيدند: «چه كسی اين كار را كرده است؟» بالاخره فهميدند كه كار سامسون داماد تمنی بوده است، زيرا تمنی زن او را به مرد ديگری داده بود. پس فلسطينیها آن دختر را با پدرش زندهزنده سوزانيدند. 7 سامسون وقتی اين را شنيد خشمگين شد و قسم خورد كه تا انتقام آنها را نگيرد آرام ننشيند. 8 پس با بیرحمی بر فلسطینیها حمله برده، بسياری از آنها را كشت، سپس به صخرهٔ عيطام رفت و در غاری ساكن شد. 9 فلسطینیها نيز سپاهی بزرگ به سرزمين يهودا فرستادند و شهر لحی را محاصره كردند. 10 اهالی يهودا پرسيدند: «چرا ما را محاصره كردهايد؟» فلسطينیها جواب دادند: «آمدهايم تا سامسون را بگيريم و بلايی را كه بر سر ما آورد بر سرش بياوريم.» 11 پس سه هزار نفر از مردان يهودا به غار صخرهٔ عيطام نزد سامسون رفتند. وقتی پيش او رسيدند گفتند: «اين چه كاريست كه كردی؟ مگر نمیدانی كه ما زير دست فلسطينیها هستيم؟» ولی سامسون جواب داد: «من فقط آنچه را كه بر سر من آورده بودند، تلافی كردم.» 12 مردان يهودا گفتند: «ما آمدهايم تو را ببنديم و به فلسطينیها تحويل دهيم.» سامسون گفت: «بسيار خوب، ولی به من قول دهيد كه خود شما مرا نكشيد.» 13 آنها جواب دادند: «تو را نخواهيم كشت.» پس با دو طناب نو او را بستند و با خود بردند. 14 چون سامسون به لحی رسيد، فلسطينیها از ديدن او بانگ برآوردند. در اين هنگام روح خداوند بر سامسون قرار گرفت و طنابهايی كه به دستهايش بسته شده بود مثل نخی كه به آتش سوخته شود از هم باز شد. 15 آنگاه استخوان چانهٔ الاغی مرده را كه بر زمين افتاده بود برداشت و با آن هزار نفر از فلسطينیها را كشت. 16 سپس گفت: «با چانهای از يک الاغ از كشتهها پشتهها ساختهام، با چانهای از يک الاغ يک هزار مرد را من كشتهام.» 17 سپس چانهٔ الاغ را به دور انداخت و آن مكان را رَمَتلَحی (يعنی«تپهٔ استخوان چانه») ناميد. 18 سامسون بسيار تشنه شد. پس نزد خداوند دعا كرده، گفت: «امروز اين پيروزی عظيم را به بندهات دادی؛ ولی اكنون از تشنگی میميرم و به دست اين بتپرستان گرفتار میشوم.» 19 پس خداوند از داخل گودالی كه در آنجا بود آب بر زمين جاری ساخت. سامسون از آن آب نوشيد و روحش تازه گشت. سپس آن چشمه را عينحقوری (يعنی«چشمهٔ مردی كه دعا كرد») ناميد. اين چشمه تا به امروز در آنجا باقيست. 20 سامسون مدت بيست سال رهبری اسرائيل را به عهده داشت، ولی فلسطینیها هنوز هم بر سرزمين آنها مسلط بودند.